Learning Claris FileMaker

JavaScript libraries bring additional and deeper functionality to a FileMaker custom app that are not yet available inside the platform.

One widget that I(Jeremy Brown) ’ve used occasionally in the past was a Date Range Picker.

This particular integration is pretty simple to set up and to use.

It allows us to add a picker to our custom app that is customized to our locale and easily sends the selected dates back to FileMaker.

So let’s study how to work with this FileMaker Date Range Picker, just as we’ve done now with DataTables and C3 Charts.

Read more and discover the video on the blog ...

(+sample database)

Second release of a card-style date picker with a mini and month picker view, and NEW for this version the ability to select a start and end date as a range.
Works well on iOS as well as FileMaker Pro
Uses the new Card Style window and everything else is native FileMaker.

All elements are in the theme so can be hacked to fit your colour scheme.
 
Designed to be used as a shared resource from a local or hosted file into all of your solution files

At uLearnIT, we love solving your problems.

Entering partial dates in #FileMaker.

How do you enter a month and a year and then use that as a date in a calculation?

Read about uLearnIT solution for a customer.

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What could be so difficult about designing a decent date picker?

Basically, we just need an input field and an icon that represents a calendar clearly enough, and once the user clicks on that icon, we pop up a little overlay with the days lined up in rows.

Right?

Read more on smashing magazine.com